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Adriana Loeff (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) co-wrote and co-directed a documentary film titled Hit with Uruguayan filmmaker Claudia Abend. It tells the stories behind "the songs that made history" and touched the lives of Uruguayans over the past 50 years. Her story on young New York househunters scouting for bargains written for the department's LiveWire appeared in The Ithaca Journal, The Jewish Exponent and The New York Resident.

Gabriela Reardon (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2007) turned her master's project on asylum prospects for Latin American gang members into a takeout for City Limits. won the 2007 PASS award in the Web category. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency sponsors the award.

Shahan Mufti (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2008) wrote "Musharraf's Monster" for the November/December 2007 issue of Columbia Journalism Review and reported widely from Pakistan for the Christian Science Monitor during its political crisis in 2007.

Toufic Haddad (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2008), who is Palestinian, co-edited Between the Lines: Readings on Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S. "War on Terror" with the Israeli activist, Tikva Honig-Parnass.

Jeffrey Iverson (GloJo-French Studies 2007) reports from Paris for Time magazine.

Amy Van Vechten (GloJo-French Studies 2008) is currently a multimedia producer for FLYP magazine . In the summer of 2007, she reported for LiveWire from the European Union in Brussels for six weeks and produced a piece that appeared in Abroad View.

Clementine Gallot (GloJo-French Studies 2008) interned in the summer of 2007 at The New York Times Paris bureau and in the 2007-8 school year at New York 1.

Andrew Hansen (GloJo-French Studies 2007) interned at the Council on Foreign Relations and wrote backgrounders on the French military that also appeared in The New York Times. His other backgrounders are archived on the CFR site. He now does research and produces for the web for The French-American Foundation.

During her fellowship with The New York Times Student Journalism Institute, Laura Rivera (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2007) reported from Miami for The New York Times and wrote "An Experiment and a Protest in Shantytown for Homeless." From New York, she published repeatedly during the internship that followed. She then moved on to Newsday.

Michael Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) wrote "Is It Black Art, or Just Plain Art?" on Barack Obama's presidential run reigniting race and identity debates in the art world. The story went out on the department's LiveWire and has appeared in London's The New Black Magazine (London), the online version of The AFRican, and in the online magazine, In the Fray. His story on "Zapatismo in New York City" appeared on World War 4 Report.

Jelena Kopanja (GloJo-Latin American 2009) wrote for LiveWire on the impact of the construction work scale-back on Latin American remittances, which ran in a number of publications, including Worldpress.org, Interpress News Service, which distributes to Latin America, Africa and Asia, the International Labour Organization blog in London, the Banderas News of Puerta Vallerta, Mexico, and The Albion Monitor of Sebastopol, CA.

Stories by Lance Steagall (GloJo-Latin America 2009) for Inter Press include "High Fashion Still a 'White Affair,'" and "Black Art Draws New Collectors, Better Prices," which appeared in The Michigan Citizen, Terra Viva Africa, All Africa, The San Antonio Newspaper (Spanish), Cuba Now and The Mail & Guardian online (South Africa).

Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) writes for the Damascus-based weekly, Thara.



  
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